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there stretched, down and before me, the most striking panorama i had yet seen. the sytch was the dark heart of the potteries, an immense stretch of ground composed in almost equal parts of bare clay earth, black water, mud, industrial detritus both active and abandoned, and fumigerous furnaces, belching
time or another a dozen collieries had been set up in the sytch to mine seams close to the surface. when the easy seams were worked out, they had been abandoned, had flooded and often fallen in, leaving deep cavities which filled with stagnant black water. in addition to potteries, mines and iron furnaces...
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